Bio

As a strategic Open Source, Digital, and Media Technology Executive and Board Director, I leverage 20+ years of experience across technology and innovation to scale growth in start-ups to Fortune 500 companies – Comcast, Intel, Avaya, and SanDisk. I bring expertise delivering enterprise, embedded, and Open Source solutions across media and entertainment, telecommunications, digital storage, semiconductor, and electronic design automation. As an influencer and marketplace collaborator I advise on strategies for growth, monetization, technology investments, product transitions, business models, and go-to-market. ✦ At Amazon, I lead the company's Open Source Program Office across AWS, Amzon.com and devices to enable our builders to do open source development as an integral part of their work. ✦ Previously, at Comcast, I set open source strategy and influence direction inside and outside the Company and into the open source industry, advising and supporting thousands of developers across 200+ projects. I established a center of excellence, creating a stronger open source competency. ✦ Driving a culture of innovation and reliability to maintain Comcast as an open source company – with many of our solutions developed using open source. Previously at SanDisk Inc., partnered with Ceph, OCP and OpenStack communities to define new storage architectures/topologies for new workloads such as cloud, big data and HPC. ✦ Oversaw $200M P&L at Avaya, Inc., a $3B+ F- 250, IP communications and VoIP company – also led senior team of professional services consultants impacting $500M in revenue. ✦ Drove Linux product line business growth over 100% YOY for Wind River, an Intel Subsidiary, where they were named #1 Embedded Linux Vendor from VDC in 16 out of top 20 Tier 1 networking companies. ✦ Serve as a mentor to start-ups in the Comcast Lift Labs incubation program on software development and open source technology strategy. ✦ Serve on boards including as Chair of Linux Foundation Board, a highly respected 501C6 Trade Association for companies wanting to engage with open source. ✦ Strong advocate of diversity and inclusion in Technology, invited keynote speaker on importance of D&I in technology.